0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/16/2014
Wednesday morning, SEC head of officials Steve Shaw — a highly competent referee for many years in the conference — gave a presentation at SEC Media Days on new rules and points of emphasis for the coming season. The big newsmakers both concerned college football’s continued attempts to promote player safety. The sensible rule change […]
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Every season, a handful of teams with losing records turn things around the following year. Here’s a list of five teams who will accomplish that feat in 2014. 5. Wyoming Cowboys 2013 Record: 5-7 Projected 2014 Record: 7-5 The Cowboys could move the ball against anyone last year. However, the defense struggled all season long, […]
0 comments by Bart D on 7/15/2014
By Bart Doan On Twitter @TheCoachBart Last year about this time, Nick Marshall not being at SEC Media Days wouldn’t have caused much reaction. Auburn was coming off of a bammies type of year in the SEC, and the national focus was so far from an SEC championship and the hype was being dealt out […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
In today’s world of cell phones and handheld devices, people walk around likes zombies as they stare into their hands. What are they staring at? Odds are they are staring at some type of social media and if they are a college football fan, they are probably reading a Twitter feed. Twitter is a very […]
0 comments by Jonathan Biles on 7/14/2014
With the College Football Playoff taking the place of the BCS, creating a new trophy was a must. The BCS was blessed with an iconic Waterford crystal football, immediately recognizable for excellence in college football, though it was fragile. Opting for a more sleek, modern approach to the trophy, the College Football Playoff national championship […]
0 comments by Jonathan Biles
Texas A&M is one of the new kids on the SEC block but its two years of Johnny Manziel and classic games against Alabama means its stadium renovation is not exempt from SEC rivalry shenanigans. College football is a year-round bragging rights activity, so it would make sense for an Alabama Crimson Tide flag to […]
0 comments by Jonathan Biles
Somewhere, in the bowels of Williams-Brice Stadium, Steve Spurrier has been preparing; readying himself for the moment when he steps from the humidity of the Southern summer into the air conditioning of a dimly lit hotel conference room. This moment does not involve a team or a playbook. It does not derive itself from anything […]
If this looks like a terrible picture to have accompanying a college football piece … turn away and run. Fast.
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By Bart Doan On Twitter @TheCoachBart College football Internet is filled with sites awash with in-depth research, hot takes from every angle, all the recruiting information one could want, breaking news as it happens, and fodder for the stats geek to last 1,000 lifetimes. This section is not one of them. If substance is what […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
You know how much the college football community treasures Steve Spurrier. No, not everyone loves him, because the SEC isn’t a place for mutual or widespread love. Just about everyone in college football does treasure him, though, because without him, the sport would be so much more… what’s the proper (improvised, not-actually-in-the-dictionary) term here… Sabanistic? […]
For most BCS teams jumping conference to conference, the task is a 14 hour drive on back roads with no coffee and only radio stations that play episodes of The Nanny on loop. Louisville has the talent to buck that trend, and much cheering should ensue.
0 comments by Bart D on 7/13/2014
By Bart Doan On Twitter @TheCoachBart The BCS gave us a lot in its time, an extra football game, more kvetching over who was the “real” college football champion, great games for the ages (Texas-Southern California), games you’d rather forget (Alabama-Notre Dame), but most everlasting of what it gave was the rise of the conference […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 7/12/2014
Now that the summer movie known as NBA Free Agency is in full swing, many people have suggested that it’s not time to talk about college football. I disagree. It’s never too early to start preparing for the season. With that in mind, I’ve decided to remind all of you why we love college football […]
0 comments by Jonathan Biles on 7/11/2014
Nick Saban and Urban Meyer use success and pedigree to convince recruits to join their efforts. P.J. Fleck uses oars and enthusiasm. But some coaches have adopted more unorthodox, modern methods to lure a recruit to their program. Arizona Wildcats head coach Rich Rodriguez, the offensive guru and former Michigan resident, is building somewhat of […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney on 7/10/2014
Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on college athletics was filled the typical bluster of political theater. It yielded precious little in the way of new information or insight. The one major exception came when Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill lashed out at NCAA President Mark Emmert regarding her finding that more than 20 percent of schools […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Q. Who are your top three choices to win the Heisman Trophy? Matt Zemek: On Twitter
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 7/9/2014
The Student Section is a college sports blog, but it was impossible to avoid noticing the sports world’s reaction to “Germany 7, Brazil 1,” on Tuesday afternoon and evening. Perspective on the unfathomable World Cup semifinal result poured in from people who follow soccer both avidly and for a living.
